August 28, 2010
The Windows Task Manager is one of the operating system’s most useful utilities. It can be used to spot unwanted background applications, determine which programs are hogging your processing cycles and system memory, and shut down applications that have gone out of control. What many users don’t realize, however, is that Windows Task Manager can [...]
July 23, 2010
If you are relatively new to the Mac and you rely on the default setup of the Mac Finder, you are probably taking longer to find items on your hard drive than you actually need to. The Finder, like other applications, can be customized and turbocharged so that you can access and open items faster. [...]
June 14, 2010
Catch the “˜Font Conference’ video that’s playing at the foot of the 5 Excellent Sources To Download Free Text Fonts. Times New Roman has his hands full while the rest of the font pack squabbles over artsy fonts like Webdings. “˜Superhero’ Comic Sans arrives in the nick of time to save the day. Aren’t we [...]
May 31, 2010
As you know, Ubuntu and Linux are hugely configurable. Find some spare time and you can customize anything starting from the boot up messages to the gradients used on the buttons and the scroll bars. While one might not attempt such extreme feats very often, administration and configuration are standard tasks that you might perform [...]
May 12, 2010
For over a decade Google featured the same, clean user interface. This clean user interface was no small part of Google becoming the commercial and cultural juggernaut that it is today. Now they have changed it. Last week I heard various people exclaim, out loud, “What did they do to my Google?” The sentence not [...]
May 3, 2010
Are we all destined to have the same look to our iPhones, iTouches, and iPads? No! iPhones, iTouches, and iPads have four “areas” that can be customized: wallpaper/background, icons, status bar, and dock. While this article discusses just the iPhone, the principles can be applied to the other devices as well. Creating a new iPhone [...]
April 27, 2010
When I first made acquaintance with the internet, it took a ridiculous amount of time to load websites. Even in later stages of evolvement, it could take several minutes to load a short Quicktime or WMV video. It’s almost ludicrous to look where we’ve come. And we’re just about getting started. A full day’s worth of video [...]
April 21, 2010
Facebook is the second most popular website on the internet according to Alexa, so I can probably assume most of you are already using it. If that’s the case, you can add dozens of features to Facebook with FFixer, a highly customizable script for Firefox and Chrome. FFixer adds great features such as the ability [...]
April 7, 2010
There are two things that you can do to be more productive in using a computer: improving yourself as the user, and improving the computer itself – either by upgrading the hardware or by using additional applications to enhance the hardware. For laptop users, the Windows trackpad is one of the vital components that will [...]
April 6, 2010
Evolution gave us two hands, but hopefully it will continue on and give us a few more. Just two hands are hardly fitting for the digital age. If we could total up the seconds lost in flitting between the keyboard and the mouse, I am sure it will add up to a nice round figure. That’s [...]
